Blauvelt, NY
Blauvelt wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blauvelt at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,079 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blauvelt at the 32nd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Blauvelt's buildings actually sit
2,079 buildings are counted in Blauvelt, and 64.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 35.5% rated Minimal.
Blauvelt against the rest of the country
Compare Blauvelt's two percentiles: 73rd within New York, only 34th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blauvelt ranks 20,801 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,256 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 342 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blauvelt
At the 34th national percentile, Blauvelt rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Blauvelt's 64.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Blauvelt's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blauvelt's 20,801-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blauvelt's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.